by Josh Boswell at Daily Mail
- Delaware prosecutors Lesley Wolf, Shawn Weede, and Shannon Hanson had worked on the Hunter Biden case for five years
- But US Attorney David Weiss’s June 20 letter announcing the charges lists Assistant US Attorneys Leo Wise, Derek Hines, and Benjamin Wallace instead
- Lawyer for whistleblower Gary Shapley told DailyMail.com: ‘None of the three were involved’ in the investigation
Lawyers are questioning whether the Delaware attorney’s office kicked its most experienced prosecutors off the Hunter Biden case – just before it filed minor charges against the president’s son.
Whistleblowers who ran the IRS criminal probe into Hunter for five years told Congress about their travails with veteran Delaware prosecutors Lesley Wolf, Shawn Weede, and Shannon Hanson.
But in a letter to a federal judge last week announcing the charges against Hunter, Delaware US Attorney David Weiss listed three different prosecutors who have apparently had no previous involvement in the case – leading to questions of a last-minute overhaul by the Delaware DoJ.
Under Weiss’s signature, the June 20 letter lists Assistant US Attorneys Leo Wise, Derek Hines, and Benjamin Wallace.
The office has been criticized for only filing ‘slap-on-the-wrist‘ charges against the First Son – two cases of willful failure to pay tax and a firearms charge for which he will take pre-trial diversion…
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